Beyond Cloud

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DevOpsCon 2018

Public cloud services have become a commodity asset in the past years.
Shopping24 though is currently running all systems on pure bare metal.
I’ll lay out Shopping24’s move into the Amazon AWS cloud a few years
back and our recent journey back into a classic datacenter. The
bottom line for doing effective DevOps in both classic and cloud
infrastructure is automatization.

Context Driven Search Ranking and Faceting

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Lucene/Solr Revolution 2017

In e-commerce, when searching over a wide range of products, sorting your search
result is crucial to your business. You most likely want to sort your search
result depending on the search context - like the dominating category or the user's
search or order history. We built a Solr plugin to determine the current category
"in flight" and change sorting and facetting of the current query without adding
any overhead to the query.